Chelydropsis

Chelydropsis is an extinct genus in the family of snapping turtle that lived from the Oligocene to the Pliocene in Asia and Europe.[1]

Chelydropsis
Temporal range: Oligocene - Pliocene
Chelydropsis murchisoni.
Left: juvenile, right: adult
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Chelydridae
Genus: †Chelydropsis
Peters, 1868
Species

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Species

References
  1. Klein N. and T. Mors. (2003). Die Schildkroten (Reptilia: Testudines) aus dem Mittel-Miozan von Hambach (Niederrheinische Bucht, NW-Deutschland). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 268(1-3):1-48.
  2. "Chelydropsis". Fossilworks. 30 October 2019.
  • Romer, Alfred Sherwood (Jan. 1 1997). The Osteology of the Reptiles. Reprint edition. Krieger Pub. Co. pp. 800.
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